plover
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
plover /ˈplʌvə/
▶noun a short-billed gregarious wading bird, typically found by water but sometimes frequenting grassland, tundra, or mountains. [Family Charadriidae : many species.]
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr., based on L. pluvia ‘rain’.
'plover' also found in these Oxford entries:
courser
- dotterel
- golden plover
- green plover
- killdeer
- lapwing
- stone curlew
- wader
- wrybill
